1971 TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE

WELCOME MAY 2020

Hundreds of thousands of people became caught up

1936 NO SNOW, NO PROBLEM

TOP FOTO No, your eyes aren’t playing tricks

1926 MAY NEIGH

TOPFOTO As part of the traditional May Day

THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH....

COURTESY OF ART FRAUD INSIGHTS X1, CA’ FOSCARI

Textile Conservator at Historic Royal Palaces

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YEAR IN FOCUS.... 1764

Summer 1764 GENIUS ON TOUR GETTY IMAGES X7

Aviator Amy Johnson returns a hero Daily Mirror, 5 August 1930

ANOTHER TIMELESS FRONT PAGE FROM THE ARCHIVES

Frost interviews ex-US President Nixon

More than 45 million Americans turned on their

The Meiji Restoration

WHAT AND WHERE WAS THE MEIJI RESTORATION? In

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HISTORY’S GREATEST CONUNDRUMS AND MYST ERIES SOLVED

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10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT... WEST STOW ANGLO-SAXON VILLAGE SUFFOLK

The remains of the wooden buildings at West

BOOKS & AUDIO BOOKS

THIS MONTH’S BEST HISTO RICAL READS AND LISTENS

SIX MORE BOOKS TO READ

ALAMY Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood

History Extra Podcast

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The Mirror and the Light By Hilary Mantel

HISTORICAL FICTION

Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen By Alison Weir

LETTERS

National Shell Filling Factory No 6 in Chilwell,

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PHOTO FINISH

ARRESTING IMAGES FROM THE ANNALS OF THE PAST

ALL THAT GLITTERS

GETTY IMAGES X2 They came in their thousands

On your marks, get set... walk!

ALAMY Captain Barclay became known as ‘The Celebrated

THE WOMAN WHO CHALLENGED THE NATURAL WORLD

Maria Sibylla Merian revealed the secrets of the insect world through a blend of exquisite art and scientific observation – the result, writes Ellie Cawthorne, of an unwavering passion for the wonders of nature

BUILDINGS THAT ROSE FROM THE ASHES

As work continues to determine what can be saved of Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral after it went up in flames in 2019, Emma Slattery Williams explores its story – along with some other famous buildings that have returned from the brink of ruin

THE WEEK THE WAR ENDED IN EUROPE

As we mark 75 years since the end of World War II, Gavin Mortimer recalls the momentous week that led to wild celebrations on Victory in Europe Day

THE IMPOSSIBLE MYSTERY OF THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT

Full of fantastical drawings and written in an unknown language, the one-of-a-kind manuscript has so far bamboozled all who have tried to crack its secrets. Spencer Mizen tries to explain the unexplainable

WHAT IF... ALEXANDER THE GREAT HAD KEPT CONQUERING?

Jonny Wilkes talks to Prof Paul Cartledge about whether an older Alexander the Great could have achieved an even bigger empire or even more impressive reputation